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"I think they're an excellent team - I saw them against FC Twente in pre-season and I was really impressed. I came back and said 'some of the football they played was incredible'," said Redknapp following the game.

"They're a team that's been built up over time. They've got strength in depth - they've got options everywhere: four centre-halves, strikers, lots of options...

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"First half I thought they were better than us. We had to hang in there - I just wanted to get to half time.

"They [the Robins] were playing through us and around us in the first half... We couldn't get near them. We thought we'd thicken up the midfield with another midfield player, and I thought it worked," he said, referring to bringing on former Robin David Cotterill late in the game.

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Responding to a question from the Bristol Post on Cotterill, the 70-year-old manager denied that the former Ashton Gate loanee had been chosen due to being motivated to play against his former side.

"He's been okay to be fair, he's worked hard in training, he was on the bench today and I looked at the bench and I haven't got a lot of strength in depth and I had no strikers on the bench.

And told that he impressed Harry Redknapp - who interrupted the after-match press conference to make sure he could chat with Lee Johnson after the game - Johnson laughed, following the defeat at St Andrew's.

Birmingham City manager Harry Redknapp (Image: Robbie Stephenson/JMP)

"Listen, he's walked away with the three points... I know we're a good side and it's a tough league," responded the City boss.

Bristol City now head back on the road to take on Brentford on Tuesday evening.